News

Zackry Stevenson (MICRO PhD ’24) recently published a paper describing a field study that took place right on the ISU campus.

My collaborators and I are thrilled to announce that our manuscript titled: "Effect of rabbit gastrointestinal stasis (RGIS) on the fecal microbiota of pet rabbits" has been published in PLOS One!

(We are) Happy to announce that our paper characterizing the core vaginal microbiota of livestock was recently published in Frontiers in Microbiology.

Binayak Raj Pandey, a second-year PhD in Microbiology student from Dr. Xiang’s lab, was officially nominated and elected as a Full Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society.

Dr. Zackry Stevenson successfully defended his thesis on 11/15/24 titled, "Iron cycling and metal utilization by phototrophic and diazotrophic bacteria in iron-rich aquatic systems."

Michelle Chamberlain was recently awarded a fellowship through the NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium for her work in the ancient ocean analog Deming Lake.

Congratulations Michelle!

MGSO hosted sessions for the Fall 2024 Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) conference at Iowa State.

Jared Meinen-Jochum and Caleb Skow of the laboratory of Dr. Melha Mellata recently published an article in mSphere titled, “Layer segmented filamentous bacteria colonize and impact gut health of broiler chickens”.

Link to article: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acssynbio.4c00312  

Celeste Snyder, a graduate student in the IM program working at the USDA-ARS, was a co-author of a recent Nature publication titled: "Dairy cows inoculated with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1" 

The 84^th annual meeting of the North Central branch of the American Society for Microbiology was hosted on October 4th at Minnesota State University in Mankato, MN.

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The 2024 Midwest Geobiology Symposium occurred on September 28th, organized by the Swanner laboratory.

Congratulations to Dr. Abesh Bera on a successful PhD defense!

Congratulations to Dr. Logan Ott on a successful PhD defense!

Logan Ott of the Mellata lab recently published his research in Frontiers in Microbiology titled, "Short-chain fatty acids inhibit bacterial plasmid transfer through conjugation in vitro and in ex vivo chicken tissue explants".

Congratulations to Zachary Burton of the Ikuma Lab on receiving the 2024 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Award!